If you are a medical or in-vitro device supplier, to be compliant with the UK Department of Health’s e-procurement strategy, you will need to have made a commitment to PEPPOL by September 2016.

Looking at the current situation, it would appear that some suppliers are ready, but many are not. Some are GS1 compliant but haven’t joined PEPPOL, while others have signed up to PEPPOL access points but have not taken the additional necessary steps.

There are two schools of thought in the shared services world regarding how to define e-invoicing.

The first school represents those that believe an electronic invoice is a structured data file, rather than an unstructured file. This structured data file is transmitted directly from the supplier’s system to the buyer’s system. During this transmission the data is never touched by a human, never printed, and never converted into an unstructured file. The data could be transported through a) a closed,

If you are a medical or in-vitro device supplier, to be compliant with the UK Department of Health’s e-procurement strategy, you will need to have made a commitment to PEPPOL by September 2016.

Looking at the current situation, it would appear that some suppliers are ready, but many are not. Some are GS1 compliant but haven’t joined PEPPOL, while others have signed up to PEPPOL access points but have not taken the additional necessary steps.

After two years of preparation, this fall the E-invoicing Platform plans to publish its extensive research report called: ‘The State of E-invoicing 2016 Trend Report’. More details and sponsoring opportunities can be found in this document as well as online.

E-invoicing is on the rise. The next 5 to 10 years, millions of companies and organisations will be looking for applications, providers, products and services. They start (and validate) their decision making processes by researching information.

Edicom mentioned in this post that in April 2014, electronic invoicing finally became mandatory for all companies registered in Portugal and that as as from e-invoicing is mandatory for all companies as from 1 January 2015.

Some further research learned that the Portuguese Tax Department forces companies in Portugal to generate an electronic standard document (saft) for einvoices. This document, must also be signed with an electronic signature. And finally, the e-invoice has to be sent to Tax Administration looking for their validation.

Every now and day new reports appear on e-invoicing maturity. (con)temporary residents of the e-invoicing arena, are familiar with the Billentis report. Which is distributed freely. Another provider of leading reports is Gartner. And it recently issued IT Market Clock for B2B Solutions, 2014.

Tradeshift invested in buying the report and was kind enough to publish the summary IT Market Clock image in a blogpost. It is a nifty and yet complex image.

25 companies specialized in the electronic invoicing operations gathered around GS1 France have officially signed the E-invoicing Interoperability Charter. This charter aims to reaffirm the free exchange of electronic invoices, especially when the electronic bill passes through two different operators.

The development of the E-invoicing Interoperability Charter began almost a year, as part of a working group composed of users GS1 France. It is the result of the will of GS1 member companies, publishers and operators of electronic invoicing solutions,